Dashing Sentence Examples

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  • Ashley cried, dashing out of her room.

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  • But you must remember I'm old, and my dashing days are past and gone.

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  • Carmen turned toward the house, dashing a tear from her cheek with the back of her hand.

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  • As a soldier he was a dashing officer, but a poor general.

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  • The French 4th Chasseurs d'Afrique made a dashing charge which drove the Russians off the Fedukhine heights, though at considerable loss.

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  • Dashing from room to room downstairs produced nothing so he raced up the stairs, first to his room, then to Fred's.

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  • They are painted in a rather dashing red color.

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  • After dinner, she rushed head long after Anna Mikhaylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room.

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  • Here its romantic middle course begins, and after dashing through a deep ravine between the towns of Hirschberg and Ldwenberg, it gains the plain.

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  • Edward, dashing Death of through the midst of the slowly gathering levies of Warwick.

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  • This was followed (1821) by The Spy, which was very successful at the date of issue; The Pioneers (1823), the first of the "Leatherstocking" series; and The Pilot (1824), a bold and dashing sea-story.

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  • Both are located in the Stags Leap District AVA, both operate in the same neighborhood off the Silverado Trail, and both have a dashing buck on their labels.

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  • He had been at least partly responsible for dashing her hopes.

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  • His dark suit was inappropriate for the casual atmosphere, but she had to admit that he looked dashing.

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  • For the next ten years he lived in various health resorts, in considerable suffering (he declares that the year contained for him 200 days of pure pain), but dashing off, at high pressure, the brilliant essays on which his fame rests.

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  • The squadrons under the Prussian general Bothmar, however, made a dashing charge, and achieved considerable temporary success.

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  • In the second battle, fought eleven years later (3rd August 1645), Conde (then duke of Enghien) and Turenne were the leaders on the one side, and Mercy and Johann von Weert, the dashing cavalry commander whose onset had decided the battle of 1634, on the other.

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  • The dashing rider, Colonel Banastre Tarleton, cut to pieces (April 14, 1780) a detachment of Lincoln's cavalry, and followed it up by practically destroying Buford's Virginia regiment near the North Carolina border.

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  • The mass of the people, as Metternich rightly observed, wished for rest, not constitutions; but the minority of thoughtful menprofessors, students, officials, many soldiersresented the dashing of the hopes of German unity aroused by the War of Liberation, and had drunk deep of the revolutionary inspiration.

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  • In May 1815 he was transferred to Italy, and at the battle of Tolentino scattered Murat's bodyguard by a dashing cavalry charge.

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  • The Cornette blanche of Arques, the Poule au p81 of the peasant, successes as a lover and a dashing spirit, have combined to surround Henry IV.

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  • The scene was total chaos, with goats dashing every which way in an attempt to avoid each spray of slushy snow.

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  • Who said chivalry was dead, not the dashing red knight with the feather in his helmet!

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  • The dashing escapades of courageous men who brought wealth to Queen Elizabeth were also included in the ranks of Elizabethan courtiers.

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  • I do the usher thing, and it would appear that I look quite dashing in wedding garb.

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  • Although the only reason worth mentioning him is to see how age has taken it's toll on a once dashing hero.

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  • With no stoppage forthcoming, Mark Loram brilliantly reeled in Rico, before daringly dashing past on the back straight of the final lap.

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  • Not all promised assistance is actually delivered, thus raising and then dashing expectations.

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  • But here she took the fancy of the dashing, handsome and extravagant Prince of Wales - then only 21 years old.

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  • His rush was so impetuous, that he fairly overturned several of his opponents by dashing against them.

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  • Elsewhere, it was rather dashing all round with English aristocracy providing lashings of inspiration.

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  • Perhaps the most surprising sighting of the day was that of an Indian mongoose dashing across the road.

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  • Hundreds of shearwaters were dashing over the sea, as were a number of giant petrels.

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  • If you are really sharp-eyed you may pick up the strong purposeful flight of a peregrine, or glimpse a merlin dashing by.

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  • Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh, Over the fields we go, laughing all the way.

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  • Ian studied the tiny moving speck of life, dashing around the web, trailing a thin strand of silk.

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  • Prince Harry looked dashing and had women all over him in central London - as his new waxwork was unveiled at Madame Tussauds.

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  • I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea!

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  • Hurrah! he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar's baritone.

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  • Thirdly for granting some handsome, dashing, silver-tongued lothario with chiseled good looks and cute butt her hand in marriage.

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  • Probably one of the first and most notorious celebrity outings is that of the dashing Rock Hudson.

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  • Older boys can be convinced to wear purple once they see how dashing it looks on them.

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  • For boys, look for a two-piece romper or shortall set, and add a dashing cap to the mix.

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  • Baueri are recommended for planting near the sea, even where washed by spray, violent winds and dashing spray being said to brighten the glossy surface of the leaves.

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  • They were found to be ideal for driving and made any average Joe suddenly dashing.

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  • The dashing tailcoats took a backseat and were saved for extremely fancy occasions, such as balls or operas.

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  • The dress will not be wrinkled when you pull it out of your suitcase at the last minute before dashing out the door for sightseeing or an evening on the town.

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  • When you're outdoors playing sports, walking in the park, lying in the sun for relaxation, or just dashing to and from your car on errands, the sun is doing its work on your body, including your eyes if you leave them uncovered.

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  • Fendi sunglass model 384 is one of the most bold and dashing in the collection.

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  • Once you learn the "Crazy" maneuvers (drifting, dashing, the back dash, and the back drift), you'll be performing them naturally.

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  • For going to work, school, or dashing around town, everyday hairdos have to be easy and practical, but they absolutely do not have to be boring.

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  • If you're worried about a sagging or visible bra or dashing off to the bathroom to adjust an uncomfortable undergarment, you're not going to enjoy your evening.

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  • The dashing frock coat also looks like distressed leather and features bronze buttons.

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  • Flowing, brocaded gowns with proper headdresses look very elegant on the ladies while men will look especially dashing in doublets and hose.

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  • One sexual fantasy that seems rather exclusive to women is the romantic sexual fantasy where she is seduced and swept off her feet by a dashing man whether he is her partner or some stranger.

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  • Whether traveling on holiday, or just dashing about town on a normal busy day, you want your bag to be as convenient as possible, and there's little that beats a combination of travel tote and shoulder bag.

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  • Daring and dashing, he's a "me-first" kind of guy.

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  • Young men can look dashing in soft-hued tuxedoes.

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  • A 1947 movie, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, featured the ghost of a sea captain, played by the dashing Rex Harrison, as a romantic figure to the widowed Mrs. Muir, played by Gene Tierney.

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  • A charming giant prone to rhyming, a master swordsman with a lust for vengeance and, of course, the dashing hero in a mask all help make the characters in the Princess Bride unforgettable.

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  • Dean was hoping to at least finish his salsa before having to stop Fred from dashing up the mountain to single-handedly solve the caper.

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  • Old lions, whose teeth have become injured with constant wear, become "man-eaters," finding their easiest means of obtaining a subsistence in lurking in the neighbourhood of villages, and dashing into the tents at night and carrying off one of the sleeping inmates.

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  • After I had learned a great many interesting things about the life and habits of the children of the sea--how in the midst of dashing waves the little polyps build the beautiful coral isles of the Pacific, and the foraminifera have made the chalk-hills of many a land--my teacher read me "The Chambered Nautilus," and showed me that the shell-building process of the mollusks is symbolical of the development of the mind.

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  • At that moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he would appear as he passed the commander.

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  • The races, the English Club, sprees with Denisov, and visits to a certain house--that was another matter and quite the thing for a dashing young hussar!

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  • He glided silently on one foot half across the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel against his right, flew round again in a circle.

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  • I can't see why the fact that he used a pen would send you dashing up to the ice park and half kill yourself.

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  • Rostov was talking merrily to his two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at Pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very noticeable one at the dinner.

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  • The scene was total chaos, with goats dashing every which way around the field, trying to avoid the squawking chickens and the fox.

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